736 results for 'Layder, Derek'

Daytime soap operas. Evening news. Late-night talk shows. Television has long been defined by its daily schedule, and the viewing habits that develop around it. Technologies like DVRs, iPods, and...

Looking two hundred years in the past, an enlightening study of the neglected liberal tradition in Russian political thought with resonance for today.On December 14, 1825, a group of young Russian...

A uniquely revealing biography of the intertwined lives of two of America's most eminent 20th-century women intellectuals. First time in paperback.A uniquely revealing biography of two eminent...

A classic insider-outside tale of disruption, Freakslaw is a novel about chosen family and the risks it takes to become the person you want to be.Discover the dazzling new queer literary horror novel...

This is the much anticipated follow up book to Beaumaris Modern- Modernist Homes in BeaumarisIn reality, the first Beaumaris Modern book, featuring Mid Century Modern houses of Beaumaris just scraped...

Derek Parfit (1942-2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was anything but a...

Ernie McClintock and the Jazz Actors Family is a critical biography examining the life and work of Ernie McClintock, the founder of the Jazz Acting Method and 1997 recipient of the Living Legend...

Earth Shattering lines up a chorus of over two hundred poems addressing environmental destruction. Whether the subject - or target - is the whole earth (global warming, climate change, extinction of...

This book shows how rhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry. Intervening in recent debates over formalism, historicism, and poetics, the authors show how rhythm is at once a...

There is no doubt that conversation analysis (CA) is an impressive and valuable approach to studying discourse, and Wooffitt does an excellent job of demonstrating its analytical sophistication and...

Covering more than one hundred years of history, this multidisciplinary collection of essays explores the vital connections between popular music and citizenship in Brazil. While popular music has...

'A sharp but sensitive exploration of the pitfalls of masculinity' Jeffrey Boakye 'A wake up call to men' JJ Bola 'Wasn't it time to pull apart what makes us men to find some answers for myself,...

The Book is small and lethal, and everyone is fighting to possess it. It is worth a great deal of money and may have been written by the Marquis de Sade. Yet this mysterious, erotic book is...

The role of international law in global politics is as poorly understood as it is important. But how can the international legal regime encourage states to respect human rights? Given that...

Elizabeth Prout stands at both the heart and the crossroads of nineteenth-century history. From her birth in 1820 as the daughter of a cooper in a brewery, beside a cotton mill and an ironworks in...

This book offers the first account of what the First Minister, Peter Robinson, describes as the most settled period of devolution in Northern Ireland for almost forty years. It traces the tortuous...

In America after the Civil War, the emancipation of four million slaves and the explosion of Chinese immigration fundamentally challenged traditional ideas about who belonged in the national polity...

Electrical Engineering/Power and Energy Engineering Power Electronic Converter Harmonics Multipulse Methods for Clean Power "An excellent treatment of the subject." --Allan Ludbrook, Ludbrook &...

A schoolgirl on a planet saver quest... An evil lord who wants to harm the environment and bring misery to all who live on the planet... Join Genie Gems on a rescue mission that will demand all her...

undefinedWhat this book proposes to do,undefined writes Derek Bickerton, undefinedis to stand the conventional wisdom of the behavioral sciences on its head: instead of the human species growing...

Brian Tracy said, "This book gives you a proven strategy to write and sell an excellent book on any business subject you know and care about."Todd Sattersten, co-author of "The 100 Best Business...

Super 8 is a coffee table art book showcasing the history of Super 8 filmmaking. In addition to featuring stunning photography documenting the sleek mid-century design of Super 8 cameras and...

"Quite brilliant. . . . This fascinating book will interest all audiences."--ChoiceIf, as many argue, movies and television have become Western culture's premier storytelling media, so too have they...

Anyone can start a business. But only leaders can succeed. Most entrepreneurs know the long odds: only a fraction of them will lead their enterprises through the rocky stages of growth to launch...

Fifty years of preaching excellence in one volume.The Living Pulpit collects sermons from representative preachers in the Stone-Campbell Movement--pastors affiliated with the Churches of Christ, the...